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The Summit League baseball tournament concluded Saturday with fourth-seeded North Dakota State claiming its first championship. Here are some final notes from the event:

The Bison were 10-12 in league play coming into the tourney would not have made the field if regular-season champ Omaha had been eligible. That's the ultimate enforcer of how level the field was this season.

NDSU went 3-0 and used only four pitchers; none of those are seniors. Likewise, the top seed South Dakota State didn't use a senior arm in the tourney. Factor in what returning member Oral Roberts usually brings to the table, and the Summit figures to be stacked in terms of pitchers for 2015.Meanwhile, WIU's two best starting pitchers aren't seniors either, but there's a chance neither will return next season. Tyler Willman is a rising draft prospect and Aaron Michel ran into academic issues this spring.

This was the first time that SDSU made the field and not the championship game. The Jacks had been 4-for-4 in that regard with one championship.

There were a total of 13 extra-base hits in the six tourney games. NDSU had the least of those at two yet outscored opponents 13-4.On a related note, the Bison had totaled four runs in their four previous Summit championship games. They scored that many on a single first-inning swing by John Skrbec this time around.

SDSU wound up hitting just .250 in the tourney and left 24 runners on base with 18 strikeouts.

Tourney attendance ended up at 4,462. That's the second-best turnout in league history. Sioux Falls set the top mark at 5,128 in 2011. Tulsa has third place at 3,667 in 2008.Sioux Falls is likely to host again next season as SDSU has first right of refusal by virtue of being the top seed in the 2014 tourney.